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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
took in $2.8 billion in new investments during the first six months of this year. The new, public nature of the commercial real estate market thrives on information, once a precious commodity, now an industry fixture sustained by legions... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
The Summer is Finally Over
are back in the field actually dealing with ‘real-life’ situations that you can truly appreciate the cause and effect relationship between culture and sustained organizational success. This summer, I got to work with passionate,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
non-eligible households. The rate of new business births rose by 13 percent among households that qualified for SCHIP. The survival rate of new businesses rose by 8 percent. Olds took care to find out whether the businesses were serious, View Details
- 20 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)
development organization. My hometown of Milwaukee faces the dual challenge of how to catalyze local economic growth in the face of decades of deindustrialization and automation, while also reducing severe and growing racial inequities.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
better way, a market-proven, step-by-step program to achieve sustained growth with rising profits and lower costs. The authors suggest that given the right incentives, managers using this program can produce... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
Climate Stories: Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry In this first post of “Climate Stories,” Jacqueline Adams engages with Kameale C. Terry, CEO and co-founder of ChargerHelp! Terry is a veritable unicorn, an entrepreneur in the sustainability... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
commented, "There is no way to grow other than [to] keep on increasing productivity." Hoshang Jhaveri sought to explain why the growth in service sector productivity has been so remarkable: "Workers in the service sector... View Details
- Web
The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society
with Burt Fealing, EVP, general counsel and chief sustainability officer at Southwire Company as a part of the 2024 BiGS Global Leadership Roundtable in Washington, D.C. focused on industrial policy. Burt discusses decarbonization and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
new billing requirements, insurance eligibility, and patient communication regulations. We respond as soon as new developments arise.” Investments in constant innovation will make it difficult to sustain the 30 percent annual View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
their companies public, and to grant stock options to management. Once public, stock valuations depended on Wall Street's perceptions that the company would sustain strong growth. At first, newspaper chains met View Details
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
HBP’s fiscal 2017 top-line growth was slightly below the School’s forecast and the slowest since fiscal 2010. While continuing to make strategic investments in future business growth, HBP shaved millions of dollars off its budgeted cost... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
Karisimbi Partners, a three-person private consulting group that works with small- to mid-sized enterprises. “The idea behind Karisimbi’s model is that sustained economic growth in Rwanda requires private... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
evidence of when and why it occurs (Studies 2–4). Taken together, these studies imply that the proactive revelation of costs can improve a firm's bottom line. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48019 Public Sentiment and the Price... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in... View Details
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Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent - Course Catalog
as did multiple other media outlets. Major institutions also produced bullish reports. McKinsey's "Lions on the Move: The progress and potential of African economies," published in June 2010, was the firm's first of two major reports, in which it declared, "Africa's... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Product Development at OPOWER
By: Thomas Eisenmann and Rob Go
OPOWER, a software startup that helps utilities engage their customers in ways that reduce energy consumption, is scaling rapidly. The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Product Development; Sales; Customization and Personalization; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Information Technology Industry; Utilities Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas, and Rob Go. "Product Development at OPOWER." Harvard Business School Case 811-075, February 2011. (Revised November 2012.)
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
rational reason to do it from a scale standpoint, or from a this-will-work standpoint. If the CEO doesn't put in that effort then disruptive ventures don't stand a chance from a growth structure perspective." OnStar also stayed alive... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
That’s why they are focusing now on issues like job creation, favorable trade relations, economic growth, and corporate tax reform that are essential for sustaining earnings growth and shareholder returns.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
who've emerged as leaders in education reform at a time when charters have experienced rapid growth and decidedly mixed results. Together, they form a chorus: The charter school movement still has great promise. But it will take better... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
Dean Kim B. Clark. "He paved the way for the kind of international point of view that we regard as so essential today in educating leaders for the 21st century." Former HBS Dean John H. McArthur praised Fouraker's successful efforts to manage and control the School's... View Details